Health and Illness
During the COVID pandemic, this rate increased worldwide, as many more people than usual of all ages died.
What is the mortality rate?
This includes public libraries, schools, swimming pools, sidewalks, community gardens, and parks, and Klinenberg argues these can all help decrease inequality.
What is social infrastructure?
The assertion that all sexes and genders are equal and deserving of equal rights.
When someone is simultaneously taking care of elderly parents and young children, they are said to be part of this generation.
What is the sandwich generation?
This legal scholar developed and named the concept of intersectionality.
Who is Kimberly Crenshaw?
This term refers to the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and is not merely the absence of disease.
What is health?
In "Palaces for the People," Eric Klinenberg discusses the importance of public pools (fed by hot springs) in the social infrastructure of this very cold country.
What is Iceland?
Census tracts where at least 40% percent of the population is poor.
What are high-poverty neighborhoods?
This term refers to a wife having more than one husband, and is very rare.
What is polyandry?
He coined the term sociological imagination, meaning understanding how individuals’ lives are shaped by the social worlds they live in.
Who is C. Wright Mills?
Federal and state governments contribute to this program, which provides health insurance for low-income people of all ages.
What is Medicaid?
As discussed in Eric Klinenberg's book "Palaces for the People," this is a university without a campus, where students immerse in communities as they move around the world and take their classes online.
What is Minerva University?
This term is what sociologists use to argue that race is not biological or genetic.
What is social construction?
In the past, young couples were more likely to marry before living together. Now, the reverse is true, and sociologists use this term to describe this trend.
This German had a profound impact on sociology, and on the world, as his analysis of class inequality and the possibilities of class revolution shaped social theory and many countries.
Who is Karl Marx?
This term refers to the subjective experience of a disease, condition, or set of symptoms.
What is illness?
Social infrastructure is important because it helps people build this type of capital - connections with people who can help us.
What is social capital?
When scholars or activists consider how racism, sexism, class inequality, heterosexism, and other types of oppression interact, this is the term they use for this framework.
What is intersectionality?
If two 60 year-olds end their marriage, it is called this kind of divorce.
What is grey divorce?
This scholar helped found the field of social work, and operated Hull House, which helped immigrant women and children adjust to live in Chicago.
Who is Jane Adams?
When researchers consider how our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, and communities all have an impact on our health, they are using this concept.
What is social determinants of health?
Eric Kleinenberg's book is called "Palaces for the People." What kind of institutions does this term refer to?
What are libraries?
Someone who has always identified with the same gender as they were assigned at birth is known by this label.
What is cisgender?
Myself, my kids, my husband, and his kids make up this type of family.
What is a blended family?
This early sociologist emphasized the centrality of race in American society, and with the NAACP, worked to fight racism.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?